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Please keep this material exclusive to elib.tech! Sharing elsewhere will result in being banned! Growing Youngby Alan QuestelDescription: This series is a live recording from the Feldenkrais Weekend Workshop: Growing YoungPresented by Alan Questel in Lucerne, Switzerland, May 28-29, 2011 Discovering, laughing, wondering, playing, giggling, novelty, joy, enjoyable challenges, having fun, being silly, doing something ‘just because’… How often do you find yourself in one of these experiences…as often as you used to…as often as you would like? The pleasure you enjoyed as a child, from just rolling around and playing, is embedded in movement and is easier to rediscover than you might imagine.Utilizing Awareness through Movement lessons you will explore all these facets of your self and find greater access to discovery, novelty, wonder, playfulness, laughter, joy, fun, silliness, enjoyable challenge, giggles, and doing something ‘just because’!About Alan Questel: Alan S. Questel trained directly with Dr. Feldenkrais in Amherst. Since that time, he has lectured and taught at hospitals, colleges and Feldenkrais Professional Training Programs throughout the world. He is known for his clarity, creativity and down to earth style of teaching. He brings a depth of understanding, humor and a gentle human perspective to the learning of the Method and creates lively conditions for learning.An actor before becoming interested in the Feldenkrais Method, Alan worked and toured with Jerzy Grotowski (My Dinner With Andre) and Paul Sills (Second City, Chicago and Story Theatre). Even today, one of his great interests is the embodiment of creativity and he has developed a body of work for performers utilizing the Felenkrais Method. Alan sees the Method as a means for individual maturation, and aspires towards making this appreciable and concrete for his students both in training programs and in his practice. Lessons:Intro / Learning/ Self Image / How to do the lessonsATM 1: Easy RollingDiscussion: Feeling heavier / How we connect to ourselves…listen to ourselves / Childish…childlikeTalk: What makes us old? / Birthdays / Attitude – abilities – routineATM 2: Habits!Discussion: Our muscular habits / Knowing about our habitsTalk: What changes as we get older?ATM 3: Going from sitting to sittingDiscussion: Pain / Unstable or mobile?ATM 4: Long leg rolling and…!!! #1Discussion – Challenge / Using ourselves differently / Movements AND ideas / Courage / Small windows / Small successes / What would be different if… / When I first felt old / ComfortATM 5: Long leg rolling and…!!! #2Discussion – Cloud 7 / Getting comfortable acting in ways we don’t usually act / If we change…they have to changeATM 6: Folding and unfolding…a different kind of funDiscussion: Being vulnerable / Moving in the six cardinal directions / How our muscles work in oppositionATM 7: Fun and challenge with your hands and feetDiscussion: Inner authority / Exercising our brains / Responses in unexpected places / How does a mother do that?ATM 8: Really rollingDiscussion: Florence and Rosetta / Feeling successful and continuing to learn